Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Whether you are newlywed or just looking to become a mother, the 25 best places and countries to be a mother will shock you. The United States is not in the top 30 countries, Nigeria is ranked 166th below Libya, South Africa and other African countries.

The world's best place to be a mother is Norway as the United States drops to 33rd place in an annual survey.'An American woman is more than ten times as likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth as a Polish woman,' Save the Children said in a statement.

The ten worst places to be a mother were sub-Saharan countries including Sierra Leone and Gambia, according to Yahoo News, with nine of them being wracked by conflict.

For mothers in the bottom countries, conditions for them and their children are grim as on average, one woman in 30 dies from pregnancy-related causes, according to the report.

The contrast between Norway and Somalia is striking considering for instance that one Somali woman in 18 is at a higher risk of eventually dying of a maternal cause where in Norway it is a rare event with a one in 15,000 chance.

In Norway, children have access to good health and education but in Somalia almost 15 per cent of children do not live to see their fifth birthday, according to the report.